Isaac harvey



(No Model.)

' I. HARVEY. WAGON TIRE HEATER.

No. 580,621. Patented Dec. 11,1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ISAAC HARVEY, OF HARTLEY, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO I. N. DRAKE, J. M. YEOMAN, AND J. P. GROSS, OF SAME PLACE.

WAGON-TIRE HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,521, dated December 11,1894.

Application filed April 10, 1894. Serial No. 507,085. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ISAAC HARVEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hartley, in the county of OBrien and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Wagon-Tire Heater, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is, primarily, to provide a simple, cheap and portable device adapted to burn hydro-carbon and adapted to support one or more tires directly above the hydro-carbon burner.

To this end my invention consists in the construction of the frame of the device, in the construction of the gas generator attachment and in the arrangement and combina-v tion of a circular burner and feeding device and the device for generating gas to supply the circular burner as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective of the complete device with parts broken away to show certain details of construction. Fig.2 isatransverse, sectional view through the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailed, sectional view of the burner and accompanying parts.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference letterA is used to indicate the base, perfectly made of bricks and rectangular in form. A is a cylinder made of sheet metal open at its top and bottom, adapted to rest upon said foundation.

B indicates a pipe section bent inthe form of a circle with its ends brought into close proximity to each other, and coiled within the cylinder A in close proximity to its inner surface.

18 designates a pipe of much smallerdiamefor than the pipe B and passed through the interior of the same, terminating at the opposite end of the pipe B from the end which it enters. This pipe is perforated throughout its entire length and B are caps adapted to close the ends of the pipe B. I

0 indicates a pipe adapted to serve as a burner and placed Within the interior of the cylinder A directly below the pipe B. It is perforated in its upper surface and is supported from the pipe B by means of the up rights 0 I D indicates a connecting pipe communicat ing with the pipe B at the side thereof opposite from its ends and with the pipe 0.

F, F, indicate cross pieces fixed to the interior of the cylinder A2 and extending transversely thereof at right angles to each other, adapted to support wagon tires and the like.

H indicates a valve attached to the end of the pipe B whereby the supply of hydro-carbon may be regulated or cut 0E.

In practical operation the valve H is opened and the hydrocarbon allowed to flow through the pipe B into the pipe B; from thence downwardly through the pipe D into the burner C. It is then ignited at the said burner and the supply cut ofi.

It will be obvious that the flame arising from the humor 0 will heat the large pipe D and generate hydro-carbon gas therein. This gas will be forced downwardly through the pipe D and will be ignited and burn above the said burner. The supply may then be renewed by a manipulation of the valve Hand as fast as the hydro-carbon flows into the pipe B it will be turned into gas by reason of the heat arising from the burner O and said gas will pass downwardly into the said burner.

The tires or other like objects to be heated may be placed upon the cross-pieces or supports F.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statestherefor, is-

An improved tire heating apparatus, comprising a suitable circular frame having cross pieces for supporting tires therein, a pipe leading from a suitable source of hydro carbon supply passed around the interior of the frame and perforated at" its top, a pipe of larger diameter encircling the aforesaid pipe and closed at its ends, a pipe passed around the interior of the frame directly beneath the aforesaid pipes, closed at its ends and having perforations at its top and a pipe communicating with the central portion of the upper outside pipe and the central portion of the lower pipe, substantially as and for the purposes stated.

ISAAC HARVEY. Witnesses: I

FRANK PATCH, D. C. PECK. 

